Winter Solstice by Rosamunde Pilcher | Goodreads

In Winter Solstice Rosamunde Pilcher brings her readers into the lives of five very different people…. Elfrida Phipps, once of London’s stage, moved to the English village of Dibton in hopes of making a new life for herself. Gradually she settled into the comfortable familiarity of village life — shopkeepers knowing her tastes, neighbors calling her by name — still she finds herself lonely.

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